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...Leonsis financed the project himself and convinced Bill Guttentag and Dan Sturman, who made 2003's Oscar-winning 9/11 documentary Twin Towers, to direct. The movie comprises archive footage, interviews with survivors and eyewitnesses, and readings from the letters and diaries of some of the Westerners in Nanjing, performed by such Hollywood stars as Woody Harrelson and Mariel Hemingway. One benefit of this emphasis on primary sources, says Guttentag, is that it helped distance Nanking from the bitter controversy that has sprung up over different interpretations of the massacre. "This is not a film where we had historians commenting...
...know the winners and losers, but do you know the really important stories that came out of Oscar night? Then prove...
...Naomi Watts' dress designer, Escada, revealed which of the following previously unknown facts about the Australian star in an Oscar- day press release...
...page: Gucci leather clutch with Lucite and silver plaque ($950, gucci.com) Opposite page, from top: Belle by Sigerson Morrison silver bow flat ($260, sigersonmorrison.com) Roger Vivier Ballerine Chips ($525, 212-861-5371); Sigerson Morrison perforated flat ($345, sigersonmorrison.com) Bally Lumia ($295, bally.com) Ralph Lauren Collection Brigita skimmer ($395, polo.com) Oscar de la Renta patent runway flat ($450, Oscar de la Renta boutiques...
...meeting place of the Saturday Club, a literary salon including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Class of 1821, James Russell Lowell, Class of 1838, and Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Class of 1829. Some of Longfellow’s visitors included Charles Dickens, Nathaniel Hawthorne, President Ulysses S. Grant, and Oscar Wilde. Nowadays the house at 105 Brattle St. is a Longfellow National Historic Site showcasing the poet’s collections of art, historic furnishings, and books, as well as archives and manuscript collections. Longfellow resigned from his post in 1854 to devote more time to writing. “Teaching...